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Don’t Die Until You ‘Die Hard’

Yahoo has released a new list of 100 movies to see before you die. Taking into consideration factors like historical importance and cultural impact, the list is decidedly skewed towards pop culture. Just guess who the most represented director is. That’s right: Steven Spielberg with 5 films.

Following at 3 films are Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick and Billy Wilder. Francis Ford Coppola enters the group if you don’t count the first two Godfathers as one film and Peter Jackson if you do count his Lord of the Rings Trilogy as three. His final installment, The Return of the King (2003) has the honor of being the most recent film on the list.

Nosferatu (1922), directed by F.W. Murnau, is the oldest title on the list which speaks to the popular staying power of the Vampire genre (see Twilight, Let the Right One In).

Comedy is well represented by my count of 15 ranging from Duck Soup to Ground Hog Day. As for animation: not so much. And even musicals are hard to find.

Yahoo’s list is in alphabetical order, thereby avoiding nasty arguments about what’s better than what. It also includes a bit of interaction where rolling over certain titles reveals a ‘Why You Should See It’ pop up. For the most part, I found these review snippets less compelling than the fact that the movies are on the list to begin with. That would be with the exception of Die Hard which opens with an understated “Because it’s awesome.” This of course captures the essence of why we love movies. Yippee ki yay, indeed.

The Breakfast Club: Reloaded

In the 1980’s brat pack classic, Ally Sheedy plays a black clad recluse suffering from depression and stuck in detention with several other high school archetypes. As Hollywood would have it, she rescued by a Molly Ringwald extreme makeover and subsequently swept off her feet by Emilio Estevez’ jock. (That sounds so wrong.)

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Multiple Personalities: Not that it’s a bad thing

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Diablo Cody’s new Showtime series, United States of Tara, seems oddly suited to her. An ex stripper turned award winning screenwriter of the movie Juno, Cody is no stranger to disguises and transformations.
The script, about a wife and mother with Multiple Personality Disorder who decides to go off her medication, is not content […]


fliXtra at CEO Space

What a week!!
For those who don’t know, CEO Space is the single most powerful business forum on the planet. Hosted on the snowy banks of Lake Tahoe, this conference was a literal love fest of entrepreneurs, inventors, experts, and investors joining forces to bring new products and services to the marketplace.
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Colbert for President?

Stephen Colbert obliterated the line between entertainment and politics by announcing his entrance in the Presidential race. Speaking to NBC’s Tim Russert, he left no doubt that he is running to win . . . one delegate. He’s considering asking disgraced Iowa Senator Larry Craig to join his ticket and described his governing style as […]


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